About the authors Vivian Hunt, DBE Vivian Hunt is the Managing Partner for McKinsey & Company’s United Kingdom and Ireland offices and is a Senior Partner of the firm. Vivian previously led the firm’s Pharmaceutical & Medical Products Practice in EMEA, and continues to advise leading companies on a broad range of strategy topics, with a particular focus on performance transformation and organizational development. In addition to her client responsibilities, Vivian is a leader within the firm on leadership and diversity. She frequently speaks on McKinsey & Company’s flagship research and co-authored publications such as: Women Matter, Diversity Matters and The Power of Parity: How advancing women’s equality can add $12 trillion to global growth. Vivian is on the board of several business groups in the UK, including BritishAmerican Business, the CBI London Council, and the Mayor of London’s Business Advisory Board. She is also a member of the Trilateral Commission. Vivian is a trustee of The Henry Smith Charity and is Chair of HRH Prince of Wales’ Business in the Community’s “Seeing is Believing” program as well as a reader for the Queen’s Anniversary Prize. She sits on the Advisory Council of the Tate Modern and the Southbank Centre, as well as Teach First’s Business Leaders Council and on the Board of the US-UK Fulbright Commission. Vivian was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II in the UK’s 2018 New Year Honours List for her services to the economy and to women in business. Sara Prince Sara Prince is a Partner in McKinsey & Company’s Atlanta office. She is a core leader in McKinsey’s Consumer and Marketing and Sales Practices with a specific focus on helping clients transform their operating model and capabilities to deliver beyond market growth. Sara has 12 years’ experience serving consumer, travel, transportation and logistics, and financial services clients on growth strategy, commercial capability building, and growth transformation. She has helped clients with a full suite of multi-faceted strategic and commercial issues and leads McKinsey’s efforts to drive commercial excellence transformations with consumer-driven organizations. In the continued pursuit of helping clients broadly in the areas of growth, talent and capability, Sara co-authored McKinsey’s groundbreaking 2015 work, Why Diversity Matters, correlating financial performance and levels of gender and ethnic diversity in a company’s leadership team. Sara has since partnered with a broad variety of global organizations to define their diversity strategy, deliver relevant capability-building programs, and develop advanced analytics approaches to drive desired organizational effectiveness and business outcomes using diversity and inclusion levers. Sara is on the Board of the Georgia region of the American Red Cross. Sundiatu Dixon-Fyle, PhD Sundiatu Dixon-Fyle is an Associate Partner in McKinsey & Company’s London office and the global client development lead in McKinsey’s Inclusion and Diversity Service Line. The service line supports clients in designing and delivering tailored strategies to capture the benefits of diversity as a business performance enabler, through increasing representation of diverse talent and fostering inclusiveness. Sundiatu has 15 years’ experience as a management consultant at the firm, most recently as a Senior Healthcare Expert serving clients in our Health Systems and Services (HSS) and Pharma and Medical Products (PMP) sectors. 33 Delivering through Diversity About the authors